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eWare introduces a novel eco-system to support the wellbeing of people with dementia and their informal carers

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Background

The AAL project eWare “Early Warning (by lifestyle
monitoring) Accompanies Robotics Excellence” is focused on improving the lifestyle of people with dementia and their caregivers considering the extreme impact of this disease in the world.

Lifestyle monitoring can reduce caregiver’s distress and thereby extend the period that the informal caregiver can sustain the care and support needs for the person with dementia with affective return in terms of patient life quality and social costs.

Objectives

eWare aims to develop a useful and meaningful service in co-design with human beings.
The main project goals of eWare are focused on outcomes:

reduce subjective stress of the informal carers and the patient community,

enhance quality of life of the informal carer and person with dementia,

support communication and information between formal and informal careers.

The technology and services used in eWare consist of existing lifestyle monitoring or life pattern monitoring connected and integrated with novel support robots.

Concept

The eWare eco-system is characterized by the integration of two technologies: the lifestyle monitoring of Sensara (motion sensors and open/close sensors) and the social robotic technology of Tinybots.

To realize the eWare eco-system and integrate these technologies, three developments need to take place:

eWare Cloud that hosts core data

eWare mobile application for the caregivers

eWare API enables the Sensara technology and Tinybot technology to interface with the newly developed eWare eco-system.

Results

eWare Market

In respect to the market potential, in Europe different forms of dementia are effecting more than 8.7 milion people. 70% live at home: 6.1 million people. Of these population, 30 % is living alone, meaning 1.8 million people in the current situation which represents the EU-market for the eWare solution.

eWare Business model

eWare will explore two promising business models for the eco-system:

business-to-consumer, consumer-to-business when there is use of the technology & services in the mild stage of dementia.

business-to-business, business-to consumer.

This model is applicable when the dementia is further in its process and professional care is needed

Pilot Cases

The testing of the eWare eco-system will take place in four countries, including The Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, and Norway, with a total of 300 end-users (100 persons with dementia, 100 informal carers and 100 district nurses).

The pilot technology is based on:

personalized calendar,

indoor localization,

smart home environment,

health monitoring,

identification of behaviour,

personal interaction with the robot.

News

Past events: Kick-off meeting in Utrecth, 6-7 June 2017 AAL Forum in Coimbra, 2-4 October 2017 The first eWare meeting was made on December 12-13th 2017 at INRCA and UNIVPM (Ancona, Italy) European Knowledge Tree Group for eHealth (EKTG) meeting in London, January 23-24th 2018 Consortium meeting on May 15-16th 2018 in Rotterdam International Conference …

Information

eWare
AAL-2016-071

Duration

01 June 2017 – 31 May 2020

The eWare project is co-financed under the Active and Assisted Living Joint Programme of the European Commission (www.aal-europe.eu) and the National Funding Agencies of Netherlands, Italy, Norway and Switzerland.